I didn’t get a chance to watch it last night – I even forgot to DVR it – but according to CNet, the CNN/YouTube DNC debate went over well last night.
CNet said the candidates dodged a number of questions and Anderson Cooper failed to pressure them to answer but overall the debate appeared to be a success.
Read the full story.
NPR also has a story on All Things Considered.
Category: techno
Re: Keeping it weird
Just to add to the weirdness of this weekend, our Internet went down last Sunday and since that time we haven’t been able to connect Laurie’s OS X laptop to the Wi-Fi network. I’ve been battling it all week long.
Finally she said, “Let’s just go buy another router.”
So we did along with a plunger for our upstairs toilet that hasn’t been working right since the city crews started working on the nearby waterline.
After our stop at Target we ran by the Waxahachie Chamber of Commerce building to check on the cache we hid there a month or so ago. And as luck would have it – it was muggled. Stolen or moved.
We had a cache we’ve been waiting to hide for a while and thought about replacing the first one with the new container but with the luck we’ve been having we figured we’d better wait. No since in getting something else stolen.
After we arrived home – a little frustrated we were able to get the water flowing in our tub and toilet again and I started working on the new wi-fi router. The software that came with the package kept giving me errors left and right.
It was not the news I wanted to see/hear.
I started to do a manual install and then come more rains and power outages. Wonderful.
Luckily though our luck changed and I was able to get the wi-fi router setup correctly before I had to leave for a small group meeting.
Just another day at Casa de Blundell.
Interesting stats
I always have fun looking at my stats to see why people come to this blog and how they get here.
The numbers fluctuate daily depending on what topic I’m posting on and where I get trackbacks to.
For instance, anytime I link to a story on a Google blog, like their LatLong blog about Google mapping, a link will show up on the post saying I blogged about this and for the next several days I’ll get loads of hits from folks interested in Google mapping.
Just yesterday my blog post about going to Austin this weekend was featured on CNN.com and so during the afternoon and evening I’ve gotten a number of folks visiting my site wanting to read more about Austin.
Very interesting.
So without boring you further, here’s what’s brought other folks to my page recently:
1. www.casadeblundell.com/jonathan – this is still my top entry page no matter what. Regular readers, you keep my stats up for sure.
2. http://www.casadeblundell.com/jonathan/?p=2665 – Highland Park Gives Presidential Money
3. http://www.casadeblundell.com/jonathan/?p=2664 – Running out of room at church – ask people to leave
4. http://www.casadeblundell.com/jonathan/?p=2671 – Austin this weekend
5. http://www.casadeblundell.com/jonathan/?p=2596 – On a search for the Music Machine
6. http://www.casadeblundell.com/jonathan/?p=2537 – This ended up a trackback around June 18th and I’m still getting hits from it
7. http://www.casadeblundell.com/jonathan/?p=2661 – Looking for an audio engineer
8. http://casadeblundell.com/jonathan/?m=200703&paged=3 – My March 3, 2007 entries (not sure yet what people were looking for there)
9. http://casadeblundell.com/jonathan/?p=1895 – What’s in a church name?
10. http://casadeblundell.com/jonathan/?p=2406 – Tattoo artist creates a religious scene
New Myspace themes
I’m working on a new Myspace theme for encounter.
See what you think. I’m hoping to give the tables some opacity so they’re not totally white but they’re not totally clear either.
But take a look and weigh in with your thoughts and suggestions. And while you’re at it, add Laurie, Presley and I as your friend
Great music and the news
OrangeNoiseRadio is still waiting to hear more about the negotiations between webcasters, NPR and SoundExchange over the royalty rates webcasters must pay for music programming.
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I don’t know which I dislike more
When Laurie moved into our new place I moved my DSL with SBC/AT&T to her/our new place, along with my Linksys Wireless Router.
I never had a problem with it when it as at my old loft and I used my XP laptop.
But for some reason, Linksys and Mac don’t like each other. In fact despite their work on the iPhone I don’t think AT&T and Macs like each other either.
Laurie’s Mac works fine when it’s plugged into the router but everytime we tried to make it wireless it would suddenly screw up the Internet connection and both of us would be booted from the Internet.
It took several weeks and phone calls before I was able to finally get both of our computers running fine.
Then during our lazy Sunday afternoon the Internet went down. I don’t know what happened. But it went down. Good ole’ AT&T.
I worked on it for about 30 minutes and said forget it – I don’t want this headache right now.
I tried again later and we discovered we were back at square one. The Mac keeps booting the Internet connection.
Somewhere along the way, while trying to get the Internet back up, the router was reset and it apparently lost all the settings we had worked on to get the Mac talking to the router and Internet fine.
I worked on it later Sunday night, Monday evening and now again for nearly 3 hours tonight. And still no progress.
I guess I’m going to have to suffer through another tech phone call and being told to “be sure your router is plugged in correctly.”
Arrrgh.
Like I said, I don’t know which I dislike more… Linksys, AT&T or Macs. But considering my Gateway and Toshiba laptops with XP installed on them haven’t hick-up’d once since I turned the Mac off…. I think I know which one I’m leaning towards.